Vegetable-slicer



(No Model.)

D. P. MCDONALD.

VEGETABLE SLICER.

No. 375,646. Patented Dec. 27, 1887.

ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID FULTON MCDONALD, OF LAKE BUTLER, FLORIDA.

VEGETABLE-SLICER.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,646, dated December27, 1887.

Application filed August 31, 1887. Serial No. 248,426.

1"0 all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, DAVID FULTON MCDON- ALD, of Lake Butler, in thecounty of Bradford and State of Florida, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Vegetable-Slicers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is an improved vegetableslicer; and it consists in certainfeatures of construction and novel combinations of parts, as will behereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the machine, a partof a table or stand, to which it is clamped, being also shown. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal section of the machine, and Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of the sliding carriage.

My machine comprises a main frame and a sliding carriage supportedtherein and provided with the cutter or knife and with the gage.

The main frame A is preferably provided with clamps a, to facilitate theattachment of the machine to a suitable table or stand. Shears or rails1 are provided on the main frame for the sliding carriage, and suchframe also has uprights B B at one end, furnishing bearings I) for thecrank-shaft G,and has at or near its opposite end uprights D, on whichis mounted the receiver E, made preferably of a shallow ring. This ring,as stated, is mounted on the uprights D, and for the purpose ofstrengthening the construction I usually connect it with one of theuprights B by a bracerod, B, as shown. At its inner sidethat is to say,the side next the crank-shaftthe ring E has a depending flange or lip,e, alongside of which the cutter acts in the operation of the machine.

The carriage has a body or frame portion formed with side bars, F F,cross-bars, f f, and a front piece, G, the latter, in the constructionshown, being provided with a vertical extension or bar, H, in which isformed a slot, 71., for the crank c of the crank-shaft 0. Side plates,I, are provided on the bars F. The cutter or blade J is fixed rigidly tosaid side plates, and has its inner side formed with a cuttingedge. Thegage-plate G has its rear edge extended under the forward or cuttingedge of the knife or cutter, and is adjustably supported, so it may beset nearer to or farther from the cutter, as desired. In theconstruction shown in' Figs. 1 and 3 this is effected by providing theside plates, I, and

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the front piece, G, with slots t, arranged in series one above theother, and fitting the gage-plate therein. By setting the gage-plateinto different ones of these slots the machine may be readily adjustedto cut the vegetables in slices of any suitable thickness desired.

In operation it will be seen that the gageplate serves also as arest-plate or support, on which the vegetables rest, and as the carriageis reciprocated the vegetables will be cut into slices and drop onto theplate K, whence they may drop into a suitable receptacle. This plate Krests and is secured at its inner end on the barf, and has an upturnedflange, It, at said inner end to prevent the slices from being forcedforward off the forward end 0f the discharge-plate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is l. Thecombination of the framing having shears or ways for the carriage, thecarriage having side bars, F, provided with side plates, I, and with afront piece, G, said plates I and piece G being provided with series ofnotches i, opening toward each other, the knife J, fixed on the sideplates, I, the gageplate G, fitted in the notchest' and adjustable frompair to pair thereof, and the receiver E, substantially as set forth.

2. A machine, substantially as described, comprising a carriage and amain frame having guides for the carriage, and provided with uprights DD and B B. a ring-shaped receiver, E, and a brace-bar, B, connecting thering E with one of the uprights B, substantially as and for the purposesspecified. 1

3. In a vegetable-slicer, the carriageframe having slots i, formed inseries, and the cutter secured on said carriage-frame, in combinationwith the gage-plate fitted to said slots t, and adjustable substantiallyas and for the purposes specified.

4. In a machine substantially as described, the combination of theframing having shears or ways for the carriage, the carriage having acutter or blade, J, and a gage-plate, G, the plate K, having an upturnedflange or portion, it, at its inner end, and an overhanging receiver, E,substantially as set forth.

DAVID FULTON MCDONALD.

Witnesses:

APPELLES S. YORK, HENRY F. YORK,

